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After Insister-Exister and Du corps á la pensée , Bernard Golse pursues his reflection on the baby in this work.
In this rich and complex book, written in a concise style, Golse's originality consists of inviting psychoanalysts, through a baby-being he postulates, to consider the possible relations and connections between phenomenology and psychoanalysis.
The phenomenological approach he proposes starts with the baby's body, its emotions and its rhythms: the baby's body which he presents as a true narrative for those who are able to see it and hear it. The interpreting position of the adult and, above all, of the mother transforms these clues given by the baby's body into signs that are symbolized little by little: ‘the baby's body represents the royal road to symbolization, subjectivation, semantization and semiotization processes in human beings’.
The task to which Golse devotes himself is the exploration of this meta-psychology of the before: before language. His project is to question the formation